本文旨在檢視「同性戀」概念在中國近代史研究上的有效性，透過比較與分析晚近的著作，說明同性戀史如何衝撞主流框架，重新詮釋中國近代史。本文先扼要介紹西方同性戀史學的發展脈絡，並界定同性戀的範圍和提問角度。然後將焦點放在近代中國，探討晚近中國史學界如何利用此概念進行研究：提問的方式、使用材料和限制。最後探討同性戀此一概念如何挑戰與拆解「異性戀」歷史，並形成中國近代史研究多元面向的一環。

This article examind recent academic works on homosexuality in modern China, particularly focused on how these works articulating the newly developed concept of ＂homosexuality,＂ and on how they deconstructed heteronormativity. First, this study introduced the history of the homosexuality has been developed in Western scholarship. Second, the author discussed how China scholars conduct research on homosexuality, and how they use ＂homosexuality＂ as a methodology to rich the China research.